ALAN'S TERMINAL COLOR PICKER
I can never tell from swatches how colors will look full size. Doubly so with combinations like text on a background. So, I built this to make it easier to pick terminal colors.
Click some squares and numbers to change things up then scroll to the bottom if you'd like more details.
BACKGROUND: 0 - #000000 - Black (SYSTEM)
FOREGROUND: 37 - #00afaf - LightSeaGreen
Guess the results from the first scores.
Ducks fly north but lack a compass.
A salt pickle tastes fine with ham.
These thistles bend in a high wind.
The tree top waved in a graceful way.
The coffee stand is too high for the couch.
The urge to write short stories is rare.
The pencils have all been used.
>BACKGROUND: 0 - #000000 - Black (SYSTEM)
FOREGROUND: 37 - #00afaf - LightSeaGreen
The sofa cushion is red and of light weight.
At that high level the air is pure.
The office paint was a dull sad tan.
Steam hissed from the broken valve.
Torn scraps littered the stone floor.
Where were they when the noise started.
The paper box is full of thumb tacks.
The long journey home took a year.
>BACKGROUND: 0 - #000000 - Black (SYSTEM)
FOREGROUND: 37 - #00afaf - LightSeaGreen
We admire and love a good cook.
Corn cobs can be used to kindle a fire.
There was a sound of dry leaves outside.
Jazz and swing fans like fast music.
The doorknob was made of bright clean brass.
They took the axe and the saw to the forest.
The map had an X that meant nothing.
>BACKGROUND: 0 - #000000 - Black (SYSTEM)
FOREGROUND: 37 - #00afaf - LightSeaGreen
A fresh start will work such wonders.
He wrote his last novel there at the inn.
It is hard to erase blue or red ink.
The grass and bushes were wet with dew.
Write at once or you may forget it.
Some ads serve to cheat buyers.
The houses are built of red clay bricks.
Add salt before you fry the egg.
>BACKGROUND: 0 - #000000 - Black (SYSTEM)
FOREGROUND: 37 - #00afaf - LightSeaGreen
Cut the cord that binds the box tightly.
Look in the corner to find the tan shirt.
The flint sputtered and lit a pine torch.
Quench your thirst, then eat the crackers.
The mute muffled the high tones of the horn.
The node on the stalk of wheat grew daily.
The heap of fallen leaves was set on fire.
Write fast, if you want to finish early.
>DETAILS
- Clicking the colored numbers changes the text in the mock terminal windows. Clicking the colors boxes changes the background
- The specific colors are the 256 terminal defaults
- Changing colors updates the first two lines of the mock terminals to provide the color codes. You can grab them from there
- The first number in the output lines is the 0-255 color id. It's what you can use if you want to change your terminal via dotfiles
- If you're wondering how useful this is given that themes and terminals with zillions of colors are a thing, the answer is "not particually, until it is". For example...
- This entire thing came about because I started using tmux and wanted to change the color of the status bar. I found out how to do that from here. And, you guessed it, you need to use the 0-255 number ids. Eight hours later and we ened up here
- And, yes. I really built this just to pick colors for the tmux status bar